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π‘½π’‚π’π’†π’“π’Šπ’‚ 🌷's avatar

I haven't read the book, so I clearly have no idea what it talks about. But by the way you describe it, it seems like you or the author confuses intuition with neural pathways (System 1) that make assumptions and fast decisions because of past data.

Intuition is something completely different! It is almost predictive. Intuition isn't a logical conclusion, not even a gut feeling. The gut is the communication of the body. The mind is the assumption of your environment out of calculated data. While the mind calculates data and the gut communicates physical states, true intuition operates beyond those boundaries. It’s not a 'feeling' or a 'calculation'; it’s a direct knowing that defies logical explanation. True intuition is more like a signal you're receiving. And it is always correct because it exists beyond the time and space reality.

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If it is always correct and beyond time, why do so many people mistake it for wishful thinking? Perhaps true intuition recognises its own limitations.

π‘½π’‚π’π’†π’“π’Šπ’‚ 🌷's avatar

Because they don't know how to differentiate the mind, the body, and the spirit. Three different sources perceived through the same lens. When the lens isn't clear, information gets blurry. People more easily recognize the language of the mind vs. the heart. There they get a strong and distinct opposition of views. But the mind can be mistaken for the gut because both perform based on past memory. Intuition, on the other hand, has no limitation; the only limitation is to be recognized as such. Many times I have predictive knowings without a logical explanation. It blows my mind every time! πŸ˜‚ But intuition isn't a pattern recognition that can be trained and be refined. Although it can be trained and refined as you start to hear it, follow it, and believe it as true. Then it gets clearer and "louder."